the thing to note is this... conservatives/ right wing types build their worldviewin a small box.... in this small box lies their opinions, their belief system,their understanding of how the world works, their values and their perspective of the world..... in this small box lies such opinions like god created marriageto be between a man and a women.... homosexuality is wrong..... transgenderpeople are emotional, mentally confused, mentally ill......everything is a plot orconspiracy against the conservative and his beliefs... the (take your pick) jews,liberals, communist, radical left, or some combination like the "radical liberal communist left" is trying to promote their agenda or corrupt the worldinto their sick version of the world.....everything fits into this little box and anythingoutside of this box is wrong or a lie or a conspiracy or an agenda.....

for the conservative, they think that the "radical liberal communist left has a convention every year and we get together to plot our taking over the worldwith our anti-America, anti-Christian, anti-human views with our morally depraved visionof the world...... nothing could be further from the truth....I mean we do have a convention, much fun was had by all.... but we are so clever and so diabolical in our meetings that NO ONE has ever disclosed that we have a yearly convention to take over the world.... before now....

but the truth is far simpler..... the fact is the left is far more diversethen the right....we cover far more visions of the human being thenthe right..... the right fixates on its small box of beliefs and anyoneoutside of that small box is evil, wrong, morally depraved... we accept all with exceptions and even those exceptions are interesting.... we don't tolerate those who promotehate and violence against other people......why should we tolerateviolence against people? the goal is peace, not violence and webelieve that the way to achieve peace is via tolerance and compassion andmost importantly, justice... everything a liberal does, he/she doesin the name of justice..... and justice requires tolerance and acceptance and understanding........that is why tolerance is a part of justice.....

under the broad heading of justice lies tolerance and compassionand truth and a broader view of humans then the right have.....

you hate in the name of some vision you don't even understand...

and we on the left, we love but our love is not some one size fits all love....I don't love the same things other liberals love and we are ok with that...I don't need you to fit some vision I have of what a human isbut you do need me to fit into some vision that you have of human beings...remember the box.... anything that doesn't fit into the box... anything thatis not you.. is hated and feared and despised..... I have the world andall you have is a small box......

Kropotkin

"Those who sacrifice liberty for securitywind up with neither." "Ben Franklin"